Roofing tile.



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No. 844,453. .PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

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"E. E. JOHNSTON.

1100mm TILE.

Witnesses lhvafi bor: 3 Edward E.Johns?;on

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EDWARD EVERETTJOHNSTONOF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGN OR TO MOUND CITY ROOFING, TILE COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A

CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

ROOFING-TILE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, '1907.

Application filed March 24:, 1906. Serial No. 307,865.

. tainsto make and use the same, reference be Be it known that I, EDWARD EVERETT JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Roofing-Tiles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appering had to the accorn anying drawings, forniing part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showinga number of tiles embodying the features of my invention in operative position, and Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view taken onthe line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to roofing-tiles, and

the object of my invention is to pro vide roofing-tiles which are so constructed that it will be impossible for rain or water to be blown through the joints formed by placing the tiles together and which in case of an overflow will drain off all the water which might enter the joints between the tiles.

The tile which I have herein shown as embodying the referred form of my invention is provided a ong one of its longitudinal edge portions with a gutter and with a rib extending along one edge of said gutter, and the other longitudinal edge portion of the tile is provided with a raised portion having a recess formed in its underneath face to receive the rib on the adjacent tile when the tiles are placed in operative position, and thus form a and 2 designates a rib extending along one side of said gutter, the extreme longitudinal edge of the tile being provided with a rabbet 3. The other longitudinal edge portion of the tile is provided with a raised portion 4, having a recess 5 formed in its underneath face to receive the rib 2 on the adjacent tile when the tiles are in operative position, and the tongue or flange 6, which forms one side of said recess, rests on the upper face of said adjacent tile, as shown in Fig. 2. The underneath face of the raised ortion of the tile is also provided with a ra bet 7, as shown in Fig. 2, so thata shoulder 8 is-formed, which fits in the rabbet 3 of the adjacent tile, the gutter 1 of said adjacent tile being covered, but not filled in, by the bottom of the rabbet of the overlapping tile. Accordingly a very effective lock is formed-between the tiles and the gutter is of suflicient size to carry off all the rain or water which might possibly leak through the joints of the tile in case of an overflow, the lower edge of the flange 6 resting on the upper face of the adjacent tile, so that rain or water cannot be blown in through the joint. I r

Y Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. A roofing-tile provided at one edge with a longitudinally-extending gutter formed below the upper surface thereof and with an upwardly-projecting rib'adj'acent said gutter, and the other edge portion of the tile being provided with'a recess on its underneath face to receive the rib of the adjacent tile, the underneath portion of the overlapping tile covering the gutter of the adjacent tile but not extending into said gutter; substantially as described.

2. A tile provided at one edge with a gutter and with a single upwardly-projecting rib extending longitudinally of the gutter, and the other edge portion of the tile having a raised ortion provided with a recess to receive the rib of the adjacent tile, the flange which forms one side of said recess resting at its'lower edge upon the upper surface of the adjacent tile at a point distant'from the gutter and the gutter of said adjacent tile being covered but not filled in by a portion of the overlapping tile; substantially as described.

3. A tile provided in its upper face with a gutter, a longitudinally-extending rib at one raised portion at the other edge portion of In testimony whereof I hereunto affixmy the tile provided in its underneath face with a signature, in the presence of two witnesses, in recess to receive kt)he,ril) of the adjacenllt tile a this 20th day of March, 1906. v

ortion to cover. ut not ro'ect into t e utl er of the adjacent tile an wi th a rabbet fo rm- EDWARD JOHNSTON I ing a shoulder which fits in the rabbet of Witnesses: p the adjacent tiles when said tiles are in 0 er- WEL s L. CHURCH, ative position; substantially as describe GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

